LAHORE: Pakistan government has sought to block Imran Khan's X account for posting “anti-state” material, a minister said Sunday even as the incarcerated former prime minister's party celebrated their leader's 73rd birthday in Lahore and elsewhere.

The former cricketer-turned-politician has been in jail for over two years in multiple cases. He is currently lodged in the Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.

“We have contacted the X (management) seeking blocking of Imran Khan's account for anti-state, especially anti-army tweets,” Federal State Minister on Law Barrister Aqeel Malik said in a TV interview on Sunday.

“We have also launched a probe to know who is running Khan's X account and making anti-state posts,” he said, adding, the government would soon uncover the network behind it.

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